iDial Brings Nostalgia To Your iPhone
If you yearn for those days when phones were dialed via rotary, this app is for you. iDial emulates dialing of phone numbers with a virtual rotary keyboard. To install, add: http://rep.sosiphone.com as a source in Installer.
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i want this software
Super! Something like that I have being waited for a couple of month! Thanks a lot guys!
what about ‘#’, ‘*’ ?
if you wanna use it? how the hell?
those phones were PULSE dude. There weren’t ‘#’, ‘*’ if
you know what I mean.
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i know u mean but THIS is an iphone not just a pulse system
why don’t u make it better than just a normals
i think it supposed to used #, * anyway
or did u see the alphabet “A”, “B”, “C” … ???
how would that be in Pulse phone also???
i haven’t seen all the alphabet in the classic phone before
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Well, duh, there weren’t any alphabet on pulse dialing
Just plain old numbers.
Can’t wait to write a text message using this.
the funniest part is how you all freak out when technology comes at you in the appearance of olden days style.
There most certainly were ABC’s on old rotary phones.
The Prefixes used to be words, so like in West Seattle, the Prefix is WE5- xxxx or 935-xxxx. You say, call me at West 5-xxxx.
However, 0 and q weren’t under zero. Zero stood for Operator. Remeber those?
that should be
http://repo.sosiphone.com
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Congrats for this app!
how do i load it up?
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It seems in this multi-media world we live in, it wouldn’t be too much to ask for a video demonstration. Am I right?
I would love to see how this works.
Mario { 03.06.08 at 1:16 am } Well, duh, there weren’t any alphabet on pulse dialing Just plain old numbers.
NOT TRUE. For those of us who remember rotary dialing, there were number. In fact, there was a time when you would use the place as the first two digits (Pennsylvania6-5000 was a WWII era song).
@adrenaline When you hit call it drops you into the standard interface to get a keypad.
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Chuck { 05.14.08 at 12:04 pm }
NOT TRUE. For those of us who remember rotary dialing, there were number. In fact, there was a time when you would use the place as the first two digits (Pennsylvania6-5000 was a WWII era song).
Let’s not forget that the USA is not the whole world
I remember rotary dialing too, I also know that some of the phones had letters on dialers, but they became obsolete long time ago, as you said, WWII era song
I can remember when we got the phone into our in Adelaide, South Australia house sometime in the early 60’s, it had letters over the numbers then. My parents used to say their phone number started with JL then 4 digits,
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old fashioned coooooool
Still no one has answered o795ep’s legitimate question from two months ago of how to “Dial” the pound symbol “#” or the star/asterisk * which are occasionally needed when calling an automated phone system/answering machine.
Correction, the original question about # & * posted two months ago was from “adrenaline”
i added the source but i can´t find any idial.
please help
Hey I added http://rep.sosiohone.com to my installer, but I can’t find the rotary dial, and to top it off the website is in french. Can you help me?
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